# Swiss AI Initiative — Inference Ecosystem

- Company: Swiss AI Initiative (swiss-ai.org)
- Announced: 2026-09-17
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://apertus-ai.org/articles/2026-09-apertus-1-5-ga/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/18372-inference-ecosystem
- Subject: Apertus

Apertus is being deployed across a vibrant ecosystem from on‑premise deployments to high‑throughput APIs. Find out more in this update. Apertus 1.5 adds image understanding competitive with leading open-weight models at scale, experimental audio understanding, stronger tool use, and thinking mode from our second-generation post-training pipeline. You can read more about this in our July announcement . Some of these capabilities need to be enabled through configuration changes and upgrades on the inference side. Pioneering organizations have gone above-and-beyond to support our work this summer, in some cases contributing their engineer’s expertise and code commits to key open source components to benefit the entire community. § All logos shown above are trademarks of their respective owners. Over the summer, we became thanks to our enthusiastic community the highest downloaded model from Europe on Hugging Face, with over 4 million downloads in total across official Apertus releases @swiss-ai Community Evaluation One month before the Apertus 1.5 release, 15 organizations evaluated the 8B and 70B model weights, represented by roughly 50 engineers and experts. …

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